Otto Carbajal

Content Engineer

Graphic Designer

Otto Carbajal

Content Engineer

Graphic Designer

  • Establish flexible plan

  • Account for unknowns

  • Adjust to project needs

  • Arrive to team solution

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Creative

Focused

Teammate

Learning by doing Prepares me to anticipate & respond to the unexpected.

With over 20 years expertise in print graphic design, hands-on experience in content engineering with varying levels of skill in digital design, I use tools for both platforms to deliver results. I handle relationships with cross-functional content teams (developers and authors) to seek reusable ways to automate and publish content for digital platforms & print publications and provide workflow solutions for managing content while ensuring brand identity.

  • GRAPHIC DESIGNER
    My 20+ years experience as graphic designer helps create user-center experiences, proficient graphic and instructional design, and with meticulous attention to detail conceptualize, develop, and produce digital designs. I ensure brand alignment between program components on all platforms. I work up prototypes in InDesign, construct InDesign XML templates, reformat XML source code for InDesign import (tag to style field mapping). I am able to test & revise document type definitions (DTD) and use Adobe InDesign GREPS (basic level).

    CONTENT ENGINEER
    I help author many processes and procedures for editorial teams, work with development teams discovering, assessing, and delivering content workflows (print-to-digital & digital-only), and provide solutions for management of digital assets. I implement reusable automated ways to publish digital content for application developers from print tools like Adobe InDesign. I am knowledgeable in extracting metadata from print for digital apps in development and capable of understanding complex technical project details to communicate them simply to non-technical audiences.

    As Graphic Designer-Content Engineer, I applied my skillset in the following ways:

    ✅ Use XPath with InDesign Styles to create XML structured templates

    ✅ Define patterns in InDesign content with XML rules; See Demos.

    ✅ Validate structured XML for print & digital app consumption using Entity Relation Diagrams

    ✅ Build data models for CMS databases export as XML for InDesign; See Directus CMS.

    ✅ Constructed an authoring framework in Oxygen XML; See Demos.

    ✅ Extracted metadata from InDesign files for WoodWing.

    VIEW RESUME

  • BASIC
    DITA & DITA Maps
    Aquia DAM (Widen)
    XPath
    Alfresco
    Powerpoint
    Excel
    GitHub
    Keynote
    Mural

    INTERMEDIATE
    Agile
    Accessibility
    Confluence
    HTML & CSS
    Data Model
    Directus CMS
    JIRA
    Miro
    Notion
    Oxygen XML Editor
    XML & WoodWing

    ADVANCED
    Adobe CS
    InDesign
    Photoshop
    Illustrator
    Brand Identity
    Design
    Logos
    Production
    XML INDD Template

  • CLIENTS

    HMH
    SCHOLASTIC
    AERDF
    BGCA
    AMPLIFY
    TRIUMPH LEARNING
    BEARPORT PUB
    CURRICULUM ASSOC
    GIRLS INC DC
    EVC

    PORTFOLIO

    COLLECTION of projects in print and in digital design that include logos, brand identity, and visual templates and guidelines I have developed over the years. In each task, I retouched images, vector files, psds files, & customized html & css, making use of script libraries. Projects ranged from ideation to templates, and experiments using tools for professional development.